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The ongoing global pandemic and the issues it has spawned requires a recentering of social movements. From inside the global lockdown there seems to be some consensus about not returning to the ‘old normal’ that never was. But there is little consensus over what the new world should like and how to achieve it.
More importantly for those of us in education, the timing seems to be right for rethinking what education after the pandemic should look like.
This webinar explores the role of social movements in rethinking education during the pandemic in order to rebuild the world after it.
Schedule of discussion:
- 15:00-15:10: Introduction
- 15:10-15:30: Dr Laurence Cox (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) ‘Seizing the means of mental production: movement thinking and education today”
- 15:30-15:50: Dr Ivette Hernandez (King’s College London) ‘We won’t return to normality because normality was the problem’
- 15:50-16:10: Prof Mario Novelli (University of Sussex ) 'COVID 19, Social Movements and ‘new’ Pedagogies of Resistance and Repression'
- 16:10-17:00: Q&A and open discussion Speakers Laurence Cox
Laurence Cox is a long-standing social movement writer, activist and trainer, co-editor of the movement journal Interface and associate professor of sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. His latest book is The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire.
Ivette Hernandez is a Latin-American scholar, feminist and activist based at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. She has extensively researched the geographies of Latin American social movements, their new forms of popular democracy and progressive alternatives seeking to transcend neoliberalism. Her PhD thesis focused on the socio-spatial constitution of the Chilean student movement and its political capacity to articulate, through the demand of free and quality public education for all, a larger political strategy to contest neoliberalism in Chile.
Mario Novelli is Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex, and Director of the Centre for International Education (CIE). He previously worked at the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Bristol, working across the disciplines of Education, International development, Geography and Politics. Drawing on the tools of critical political economy, his work explores the relationship between education systems and armed conflict; ii) the relationship between education and processes of globalization; iii) learning and knowledge production in trade union, social movements and civil society organizations. Since 2018 he has been leading an ESRC multi-country study on Learning and Knowledge Production in Social Movements in Conflict Affected Contexts.
Organised by Dr Spyros Themelis (UEA) and Prof Tristan McCowan (UCL).
There is no need to sign up before the event. If you have any questions, please contact Spyros at s.themelis@uea.ac.uk or Tristan at t.mccowan@ucl.ac.uk
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